Twitter Suspends Britain First Leaders Who President Trump Retweeted

20 December, 2017, 01:31 | Author: Kim Reid

"If Twitter starts banning people who are affiliated with organizations that use or promote violence against civilians to further a cause, that's tantamount to prohibiting certain opinions: a very new policy for a platform that used to be known as the 'free speech wing of the free speech party, '" Benesch said.

The individual accounts of two of its leaders, Jayda Fransen and Paul Golding, were also suspended. Britain First has made anti-Islam speeches and expressed ultranationalist viewpoints.

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Remember when Trump retweeted alt-right Islamophobic videos and was condemned by world leaders and the public alike? One video purports to be a "Muslim migrant" attacking a Dutch boy on crutches. The second video showed a man smashing a statue of the Virgin Mary with the man saying "No-one but Allah will be worshipped in the land of the Levant". Fransen wrote "Islamist mob pushes teenage boy off roof and beats him to death!"

British Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman said it had been "wrong for the president to have done this". "His goal is to promote strong border security and strong national security", said White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders in response to the controversy surrounding Trump's decision to retweet the videos.

The account for Jared Taylor, who heads the New Century Foundation, was among those suspended, along with his organization's flagship online publication, American Renaissance. Twitter eventually reinstated McGowan's account and said that it had been suspended because of a tweet that violated its rules on privacy. Both their accounts and past tweets are unavailable, along with their party's official Twitter account-all of which featured posts demonizing immigrants and Muslims.

Hate imagery will now fall under the rubric of Twitter's "sensitive media policy", and that will include any "logos, symbols, or images whose objective is to promote hostility and malice against others based on their race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity/national origin".

The killer of Jo Cox, a lawmaker murdered during the campaign for last year's Brexit referendum, shouted "Britain First" as he stabbed and shot her, according to witness testimony at his trial.

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Rycroft said his country believes Jerusalem is a final-status issue and should be a shared capital of Israelis and Palestinians. Echoed by Abbas, he said that the USA "destroyed" the two state solution and "undermined all peace efforts".

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Another match was added to the pay-per-view later on in the night. "They deserve their own match at Royal Rumble ". For most of 2017, there has been one rumor that constantly simmered: the Women's Royal Rumble .

The bus was transporting students between a school in Millas and the communities of Saint-Feliu-D'Amont and Saint-Feliu-d'Avall. Three people have died in a "terrible accident" involving a school bus and a train in the south of France .

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